will visual studio 2010 support classic asp?

Question

I\'m using visual studio 2008 for a classic asp application. Will I be able to upgrade to visual studio 2010?

Answer 1

Usually you can manually deploy an asp web site direclty to the inetpub\wwwroot folder (just paste all of your required web page files to the wwwroot directory), where your default.asp page should reside at the root of wwwroot, if that makes any sense.

Then you can create an empty web site with a single project, start your web site by entering http:\localhost in to a new browser window, and you should see your default page displayed.

You can add all of the extermely old asp files to your new fangeled visual studio 2010 application directly from the wwwroot directory.

You should be able to compile your application but you won't be able to debug it at this point.

To debug the ancient application, simply attach to the internet explorer process with the title of your outdated web application (or the wp3p process....), and you will then have debugging functionality.

Or, you can wait for the old yet useful app to throw an error and then use visual studio 2010 as the J.I.T.debugger. Hope this helps as well.

Happy coding! (if that is possible in classic asp, thank GOD for visual studio)

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